#words

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#balm #drooping #healing #heart #honey

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#history #interpretation #intervening #look #mean

To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself. ↗

— Melvin Calvin

#express #feelings #himself #impossible #know

A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn't dramatic. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#austerity #balances #beautiful #certain #debt

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words. ↗

— Xun Zi

#breadth #danger #earth #every #every step

My dear colleague James Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end... The global warming 'time bomb,' 'disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.' These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist. ↗

— Nicholas Drapela

#bomb #changes #climate #colleague #control

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#big #infinite #infinitely #left #mean

We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life? ↗

— Jane Elliott

#affect #anything #day #difference #every

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind. ↗

— Charles Fillmore

#also #bring #dropped #forth #grow

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#birth #broken #drink #eat #galling